A client of the law firm used by Gina Miller lost £1 million betting against Brexit

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — A client of Mishcon de Reya, the law
firm leading Gina Miller's court battle over whether MPs should
vote before Article 50 can be triggered, lost £1 million betting
against Brexit in the referendum last year.

"The polls were saying Remain would win, the betting
markets were saying Remain would win and one of my clients
put £1 million on remain to win" the June 2016 referendum, Maria
Patsalos, a partner in law firm's immigration practice, said at
the Investment Migration Forum in Geneva on Tuesday.

Patsalos also described how the firm's lawyers were prevented
from leaving their offices by the front door during the court
battle by protestors chanting "two four six eight, lawyers don't
decide our fate."

Miller rose to political fame last year when she took Theresa
May's government to court over whether MPs should vote before
Article 50 can be triggered.

Miller wants May to give Parliament a final vote on the
Brexit deal the prime minister brings back to Westminster from
Brussels in two years' time.

The investment migration industry – a complex network of law
firms, accounting firms and private client specialists that help
people invest in particular countries in return for visas or
residency status – faces threats from a surge of political
nationalism in the West.

The driving force behind Brexit and the administration of US
President Donald Trump "will make our industry impossible,"
Dmitry Kotchenov, chairman of the Investment Migration Council,
said in a speech on "Walls and Fences in the Modern World."